Kelli O'Hara Quotes
I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.
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A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings.
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When we were in Beijing, they were all "it's an honor, you're playing at the oldest rock club in Beijing". And I was all "oh crazy how old is it?" And then were all: "5 years old."Asia is just very different.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.
